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It's For Sale, But I'M Keeping It, Sean Loughran 2017 Bryant University

It's For Sale, But I'M Keeping It, Sean Loughran

Bryant Literary Review

This car is a money pit. I can't stand it. I keep
spending thousands of dollars of hard earned
cash to keep it running but all I'm getting out


A Fitting Memorial, Roger D. Hicks 2017 Bryant University

A Fitting Memorial, Roger D. Hicks

Bryant Literary Review

Ballard had already been sitting on the store porch more than an hour before Ep left his house across the creek for their regular morning conversation.


The Fall, Peter Schmitt 2017 Bryant University

The Fall, Peter Schmitt

Bryant Literary Review

I could forget, in time, how a half-minute
sooner and I might be running in the rain
across the parking lot, catching his shoulders;


Junkyard, Susan Boehm 2017 Bryant University

Junkyard, Susan Boehm

Bryant Literary Review

In a junkyard
piled with the rusting machinery


Bamboo, Kerry Jones 2017 Bryant University

Bamboo, Kerry Jones

Bryant Literary Review

Alice Tran was sitting in the lobby area just outside my office, waiting for me, a large paper bag on the chair beside her, her feet dangling from the chair she occupied.


The Barber's Chair, Kevin Power 2017 Bryant University

The Barber's Chair, Kevin Power

Bryant Literary Review

The shallow mockery goes back and forth
like a hollow ping pong ball of conversation


And Another Thing, Ruth Holzer 2017 Bryant University

And Another Thing, Ruth Holzer

Bryant Literary Review

she used to bark
was that I looked


Out Of The Limelight, David James 2017 Bryant University

Out Of The Limelight, David James

Bryant Literary Review

Maybe it's my dislike for coconut,
my aversion to horror movies.


6802 Bayfield Ave. Arverne, New York, Brennan D'Elena 2017 Bryant University

6802 Bayfield Ave. Arverne, New York, Brennan D'Elena

Bryant Literary Review

He lights a cigarette and keeps
his hand steady on the wheel.


One Survived, Shelley Joy 2017 Bryant University

One Survived, Shelley Joy

Bryant Literary Review

He shoves the only cash he has at the Amtrak desk clerk.


Oui, Dennis Trudell 2017 Bryant University

Oui, Dennis Trudell

Bryant Literary Review

It is raining in Paris,
and a thin woman takes off her clothes


Water Stone, Matthew J. Spireng 2017 Bryant University

Water Stone, Matthew J. Spireng

Bryant Literary Review

A small translucent stone with water a million years old
trapped inside like a bubble, a liquid core purer, we think,


Game 5 Of The 2015 World Series (Pitcher Perfect Through 8 Innings), Frank De Canio 2017 Bryant University

Game 5 Of The 2015 World Series (Pitcher Perfect Through 8 Innings), Frank De Canio

Bryant Literary Review

"Call no man happy till after his death,"
Montaigne wrote. If, Harvey had died before


Iron Box, Emily Sheehan 2017 Bryant University

Iron Box, Emily Sheehan

Bryant Literary Review

Was the sun shining when you stepped out into the world today?


Dresden, Robert Kostuck 2017 Bryant University

Dresden, Robert Kostuck

Bryant Literary Review

The mockingbird song is familiar, something from childhood; maybe a nursery rhyme buried in the deepest part of my memories.


From A Traveling Daughter: A Photographic Memoir, Lilian Murnen 2017 Bowling Green State University

From A Traveling Daughter: A Photographic Memoir, Lilian Murnen

Honors Projects

“World sits outside the door, A voice in your heart is calling, The ends of the world await, Traveling daughter, Feel the sunshine on your face, Starlight guides your feet, Earth and Sky will carry you, Journey after journey, One mountain to the next, Voice in your heart is calling.” (Abigail Washburn, “Song of the Traveling Daughter” translated from Mandarin Chinese)

My family keeps me safe, but it is this safety that protects me from the discomfort that is necessary for growth. Like Abigail Washburn’s “voices,” my discontent and my curiosity call me to venture far beyond what I can …


Coming Into Understanding, Myka Menard 2017 California State University, Monterey Bay

Coming Into Understanding, Myka Menard

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

A collection of poetry following the transition of discomfortability with Developmentally Disabled Individuals into understanding.


These Wants, Mark Belair 2017 Southwestern Oklahoma State University

These Wants, Mark Belair

Westview

No abstract provided.


No Money In It, Lauren Burgess 2017 University of New Orleans

No Money In It, Lauren Burgess

Senior Honors Theses

This project consists of nineteen poems produced during my undergraduate career at the University of New Orleans. Issues concerning the female body; science (particularly astronomy and evolutionary theory); and theories about the creative process, capitalism, and relationships characterize the themes of this manuscript. Some poems are clearly part of the same narrative, while others are composed in various modes: epistle, address, self-definition, elegy, and lyric. This thesis includes prose and emblematic forms; there are poems styled after other poets and one composed entirely of “found” sentences. The poems consider what it means to be a young poet in 2017—a time …


Solution To ____'S Problems, Hannah Hearon 2017 DePauw University

Solution To ____'S Problems, Hannah Hearon

A Midwestern Review: A Magazine of the Arts and Issues at DePauw University

No abstract provided.


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